Today was the first day of a self-enforced break from cycling to work.
Over the past few weeks I noticed I was becoming increasingly tired and slow on my regular commute rides, as if I was either fighting a cold or ‘flu or perhaps just overdoing things and not recovering properly. The needle was drifting towards the “not fun” side of the gauge to be honest.
The established wisdom is of course to “listen to your body”, so rather than push on regardless and maybe end up properly ill, I decided to back off. I’ll not stop cycling completely but I’ll cut back to one day’s commuting for a week or perhaps two.
That’s what I had decided. Then I commuted this morning by car. My TTD (Time To Desk) approached 90 minutes and I got soaked in the rain walking from the car to the office, so it took 50% longer than a standard cycle, I still got wet and didn’t get to have a hot shower afterwards to thaw out.
Let’s see how long I can stand it.
I had to drive last week. You’d of thought a nice warm, car in the pouring rain would have been a bit of a treat. Yet, somehow, I found myself longing to be back on the bike again.
I had a similar experience this morning… http://twitter.com/nevsutter/status/5761277483
Seems so many of us have stuggled with illness this “winter” let us hope this is the end of it for a while, there is just no way I could sit in that traffic again.